03/09/2025
TALES FROM ARCADE TECH SUPPORT
A customer called us in to repair an ancient modded arcade. Originally a Nintendo cabinet, its previous owner installed a DOS-based multicade over 20 years ago. Easily the oldest mod we've seen so far.
Problem: it wouldn't turn on. The customer tried several techs who applied different fixes including a pricey capacitor replacement. Nothing worked, so they brought ATM in as a HAIL MARY.
Long story short, we had it up and running in no time. The floppy disk drive had failed. Even though it wasn't needed to run the arcade, it threw a boot error which prevented the arcade from starting.
After using an old school DOS tricks to access the ancient BIOS, we reordered the boot sequence, f10 to save, and it started up like brand new! Very cool to see that ancient 20,404 MB IDE hard drive still spinning. They sure don't make em like that any more 🤣
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